Asordo - Portuguese Bread Soup - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 lb loaf French bread, dry, broken up into small pieces
5 garlic cloves, peeled and finely chopped
3 tablespoons olive oil
2 quarts chicken stock
1/2 lb shrimp, peeled
salt
Tabasco sauce (use Piri Piri if available)
chopped parsley
4 whole eggs

Preparation

Soak bread in water until soft. Squeeze out the water and set the bread aside.
In a soup pot, toast the garlic in the olive oil, just until it begins to barely brown.
Add the chicken stock to the pot and bring to a simmer.
Add the bread to the pot and simmer, making a thick soup.
Add the shrimp, salt, and Piri Piri.
Cook for a moment.
Place the soup in a tureen and garnish with the parsley.
Break the eggs on top of the soup.
Bring to the table and stir the eggs into the soup before serving.